Another ecstatic moment at Rainbow, Ethan again leading us in another wild and gorgeous niggun. The sound is a little better on this one... "Taher Libenu b'Emet - Purify our Hearts" "Shabbes Kodesh - Holy Shabbat" Curate note: Judaic content.
Topics: niggun, chant, kirtan, ecstatic, Rainbow Gathering, 2006, Jerusalem Camp, Carlebach, Bat Ayin,...
Three tunes for the Woman of Valor, read by me, with a short explanation of it. Also a live version, with HORRIBLE sound quality, but the beauty of it still brings tears to my eyes. This was recorded in a lush mountain meadow, in the kitchen at Jerusalem camp, with about 30 people singing along, banging on djembes, congas, and cooking pots. I recorded it as I came from a long distance - meaning that it was audible from as much as a mile away. At the Rainbow Gathering [2006], there are several...
Topic: niggun, chant, kirtan, ecstatic, "Rainbow Gathering" "Jerusalem Camp"...
Here are audio recordings of the Kohelet Library Service - Rosh Ha Shanah Service With these recordings, we will be able to practice and learn our various parts. There are numerous short readings, and some people know about them in advance, and some readings are given 'on the fly,' during the service. These are in English. The songs and Hebrew parts are also done by various participants, and here is a good place to learn them. You can hear the page numbers in the recordings, and see where the...
Topic: tefila, Rosh Hashana, egalitarian, matriarchs, English, singing, participation, abbreviated,...
Study versions of numerous Psalms, in Hebrew and English, verse by verse. This group includes the Tikkun Ha Klali series, [Psalms 16, 32, 41, 42, 59, 77, 90, 105, 137, and 150.], the Psalms for the days of the week [starting with Yom Rishon or "Sunday:" 24, 48, 82, 94:1 - 95:3, 81, 93 and 92] and various other seasonal or occasional Tehillim. In these study versions I pronounce the 'tav' with and without the dagesh [dot] - so they are either a 'T' sound or an 'S' sound. I also often...
Topic: Bible, psalm, tehillim, prayer, psalms, "great remedy" "tikkun haklali" song,...
Here are selections from our Sunday morning davening. Some parts of the Sunday davening are read in English, and those sections are rendered here in Hebrew by Rafi alone. [I figure you can read the English on your own...] Also, in the interest of being thorough, I'm adding other parts that we don't read, such as the kavvanot for the tallit and tefillin, and the korbanos. This will be clarified as the notes become more detailed. Many sections of the service are preceded or followed by...
Topic: psalms, psalm, Jewish, prayer, Hebrew, singing, davening, Shacharit, "song at the sea"...
Better sound, new material, March, 2018 We began studying Tractate Chagigah in 2003, and completed it on my 55th birthday, 12/13/10. I wanted to make these audio notations of the more amazing parts so I could listen to them at work and not forget them, so I'm also sharing them. In most books on the Kabbalah that are even attempting to be 'authoritative,' references are always made to Tractate Chagigah, and to the specific pages represented in these recordings. Though we don't find specific...
Topics: Talmud, Chagigah, gemara, PARDES, Kabbalah, Bible, Qabala, mystical vision, paradise, chariot,...
Played by Rafi Simcha Thank Wikipedia for this: Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie. Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures sounds") preferring this...
Topic: ambient, piano, calm, belle epoch, cubist, cubism, dada, ritual, dance, meditation
Parlour Piano: Here are some of Bach's short preludes and fugues, and the first prelude and fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier. Please overlook my ham-handed playing [I've only had a couple of lessons] and wonder at the beauty of Bach. I've also now included a Bach Partita from Anna Magdalena's Little Notebook, Gabriel Faure's Claire de Lune, Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor, Francois Poulenc's "Mouvments Perpetuels," and four of the 12 Spanish Dances by Granados: Zambra,...
Topic: Johann Sebastian Bach, Das Wohltempiertes Klavier, piano, amateur, Granados, Faure, Chopin, romance...
Here are several of the songs that are sung at Shabbat dinner 1) Bar Yochai - A Sefardic zemer that celebrates the author of the Holy Zohar 2) Dror Yikra - This one has as many tunes as Adon Olam 3) Dror Yikra - Another version 4) And another 5) Eshet Chayil - A Woman of Valor - the last 22 verses of Proverbs 6) Eshet Chayil - Another tune 7) Mah Yedidut - Rabbi Hoffman's minhag is to have everyone name a kosher fish between each verse 8) Menucha v'Simcha - Contentment, Gladness. and Light 9)...
Topic: zemirot, table songs, Hebrew, Shabbat, Sabbath dinner, singing
Bar Yochai, author of the Zohar, is honored in this song, which we sang at the end of our April Kirtan. Participants had handouts that showed translations of all the verses, and transliterations of the chorus, so we knew what we were singing.... Curate note: Judaic content.
Topic: Bar Yochai Kabbalah Kirtan Zohar
Curate note: Music & Arts. Aram Katchaturian's Toccata in E Flat Major, written in 1932, has a strong Armenian influence, featuring peculiar rhythms and hints of country folk melodies. Sorry about the bad sound quality and the messy technique - I'm just an amateur. The birds are liking it, though...
Topic: Katchaturian, toccata, piano, modern, flashy, dramatic, thrilling, wild
Here are some of the special songs from the Jewish Prayer Service 1) Akdamut Milin - Composed by Rabbi Meir ben Yitzchak in the 11th century, in Worms, Germany, it has 90 verses in terse, difficult Aramaic which lead us through the great heights and depths of mystical understanding. It is read on Shavuot, right before the first aliyah. 2) Anim Zemirot - Song of Glory - by Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid from the 12th century. This is sung on Shabbat after musaf, with the Ark open. 3) Avinu Malkenu - Our...
Topic: piyyut, hymns, Jewish, Hebrew, Aramaic, mystical, songs, prayer, hymn
I've divided up the various tunes we've done into smaller chunks, between 5 and 8 minutes long. Enjoy! The explanatory / attunment material has been deleted from these audio files to save space, but at the live events we explain the meanings of the words and establish a meditative awareness around the singing. This selection also now includes "Bar Yochai," the song eulogizing the author of the Zohar. You can play the whole sequence just by clicking the 'play' arrow at the top. Having...
Topic: kirtan, jewish, chanting, call and response, chant, hebrew, meditation, bar yochai, mah yakar...
Curate note: Music & Arts. This is not the grand toccata famous from horror movies - I don't have a pipe organ or enough skill... Those are real birds on the porch chirping in the backround...
Topic: Bach, toccata, fugue, D minor, piano, baroque, classical
Mystical, elaborate, and deep ritual, going on for hours, featuring extended chants and intensely difficult language - This is how to describe the Jewish High Holy Days {Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.} Anyone who has fidgeted through seemingly endless, tedious mumbling with no understanding, has missed the vast and dazzling treasure that is the "Days of Awe" - the "Yomim Norayim." And that's not surprising, since the fruits of these days are profoundly difficult to penetrate....
Topic: kavannah, hoshanas, hosannas, hoshannah, rosh hashanah, yom kippur, jewish, prayer, holy, Torah,...
Audio of Rabbi Hoffman's part of the "Science and Non-duality Anthology 1,” a 3 DVD set of interviews with representatives from almost 30 different spiritual and philosophical traditions. The audio begins with an introduction of Rabbi Hoffman. In the video, you have to read the questions, so for this audio version I read the questions and inserted the audio. Here are the questions: Intro *What is non-duality *What is the “I”? *Is there a need to remove the “I”? *Is there free...
Topic: unity
Here is Georg Friedrich Handel's "Harmonious Blacksmith," an "Air with Variations." It's in four sharps, giving it a brightness that goes well with the clanging of the blacksmith's hammer, imitated by the regular, pronounced and explicit beat. There are 13 variations, and the first 12 all repeat. [I still need to work on this one more, and I'll update the recording as I get better...] Also to fit the upbeat mood, here is Mozart's Sonata in F Major K. 300k (332). It was...
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Topic: classical, piano, Handel, Beethoven, music, Baroque, harpsichord, parlour, lady finger dipped in...
Here are various blessings for all kinds of things, including the Wayfarer's Prayer, El Malei Rachamim, and the Kavvanah for Tefillin. Yekum Purkan is explained in the recording, and read in Aramaic without translation. El Malei Rachamim is the prayer said for the deceased. This is read once in Hebrew, then parsed in English and Hebrew, and then again in Hebrew. Magen Avot, said after Kabbalat Shabbat. Nachas Tefillin is read just before the arm tefillin is tightened. Phenomena and Events...
Topics: blessings, brachot, bless, prayer, wayfarer's prayer, Jewish, Hebrew, Judaica
Here are experimental renditions of 1 Chronicles 16:27-30. I'm sure it could be much better, but this is the best I could do all by myself on the computer layering wave files of my own voice and instruments... I visualize this being done as a kirtan - there are only two verses [these are part of the daily prayer service] and people could easily learn it. If you are coming to one of the kirtans, we will be doing this one among others. This version is six minutes long - I think with a group, it...
Topic: prayer, Jewish, davening, shacharit, p'suki d'zimra, Torah, kirtan, shabad, harmonium, Chronicles,...
Here are several versions of Psalm 91, by which I was able to memorize it. I just listened to these on my iphone all day over and over, and the variety kept it from becoming "invisible" to my ears, kept me interested, and firmly embedded it in my cortex. Now I say it from memory a couple times a day: when I do my yoga in the morning, and when I'm falling asleep at night.
Topic: psalms, tehillim, meditation, learn Hebrew, Psalms of David, psalm
Here are the Tikkun ha Klali [Repair of Everything], the Psalms for Kabbalat Shabbat, the "Shir ha MaAlot" - "Songs of Ascents" and the Morning Blessings. Tikkun haKlali consists of Psalms 16, 32, 40, 41, 42, 59, 77, 90, 105, 137, 150. This series of Tehillim is called the "Great Remedy," and was identified by the great Rabbi Nachman, z"tzl. These 10 are said to represent the entire sefer Tehillim. This reading is mostly for my learning purposes at this point;...
Topic: psalm, tehillim, prayer, psalms, "great remedy" "tikkun haklali" psalm,...
The "Song of Songs" is at first glance, a love poem. But it is a love poem that constantly shifts between genders, mixing male and female in a way that liberates it from one side or the other. On a deeper level, the lush poetic imagery uses ideas and terminology all taken from the Torah: "your hair is fragrant" like various ingredients of the temple incense; your thighs are sturdy like the towers of the temple; your countenance is like the walls of Jerusalem. This is a love...
Topic: Shir ha Shirim, Song of Songs, meditation, Solomon, Canticles, Hebrew, Torah, Ketuvim, Shabbat,...
A compilation of pieces by various sound artists in Denver, Colorado, from the mid-1980s. The musical styles run the gamut from faithful reproductions of the late 60s garage sound to "industrial noise," to heavy metal, to 80s style grunge/noise. The band names are: Acid Ranch, Bum Kon, Cage of Reason, Big If, Caveat Emptor; Chelsea Girls; Control Corp; Pagan Cowboys, Acid Pigs, Pax Hope; Petrorite; Pin Rose; Divresse Indians; Happy World, Human Head Transplant, Psychodrama, Soul...
Topics: punk, rock, industrial, deconstructed, soundscape, ambient, thrash, metal, screaming, guitar, hot...
Curate note: Music & Arts. Here are some soothing ambient soundtracks. Cloudsurf: Soft pillows of sound with a barely perceptable rhythm... 16:5 mb - 9 minutes Gongtime: Cavernous gong meditation - ... 8:8 mb - 23 minutes Nag Champa: A fragrant wafting of bells, chimes, gongs, and other sounds - live recording. 17 minutes Pranasurf: Inobtrusive, distant sounds with subtle breathing reminders reminiscent of ocean surf... 13:3 mb - 23 minutes Qetoret: Slight air movement causes gongs to ring...
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Topics: ambient, bright, light, prana, calm, meditation, breath, breathing, relax, relaxing, calming,...
Curate note: Audio Books & Poetry I've finally gotten back to these, and cleaned up the audio so they sound much better. [3/18/2018] "A Voyage to Arcturus" has been described as a Science Fiction version of "Pilgrim's Progress:" a journey through a land of metaphorical landscapes, and encounters with personifications of various moral qualities. Published in 1920, it is among some of the earliest true Sci-Fi Fantasy, and rivals all that has come since. Maskull, the...
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Topics: space, time travel, distant planets, aliens, ethics, meditation, ambient, alternate realities,...
Index of Rabbi Hoffman's Audio Files Hallel, Hoshana Raba 1) Hallel, followed by the Hoshanas of Hoshana Raba [1 hr. 10 mins] 2) Variations of tunes for Hallel [3 mins] 3) Variations of tunes for Hoshanas [5 mins] 4) Shacharit with Hallel [starts mid-Psuki d'Zimra] [1 hr. 21 mins] Guitar, bells, all voices 5) Simchat Torah at Kohelet: Niggunim, and Torah readings of HaAzinu and Bereshit [35 mins] [Lots of Kids] Curate note: Judaic content.
Topics: RHT-1003, RHT-0000, prayer, davening, singing, hoshana, succot, Torah, simcha, chag sameach,...
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Live jamming at Jerusalem Camp, at the Rainbow Gathering, 2006
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These audios are for people to learn their sections from.
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Here is Rabbi Hoffman's Study Guide, which contains a glossary of familiar or not-so familiar Hebrew words, diagrams, and many other fascinating study tools. This is the "PDF" link on the left that says "2.1 M" next to it. The smaller file is the book of Dialectic Triangles, in which the Rabbi illustrates numerous Hebrew words that have 3 meanings - creating dialectic triangles which teach principles of Judaic philosophy. This is the link on the left that says: "510.4...
Topic: Torah Jewish Bible Study Chasidic Judaic Philosophy
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Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam "More than twenty years ago, Tawfik Hamid was recruited by Jamaa Islamiya - an Islamic terrorist group led by Dr. Aiman Al Zawahiri, currently the second-in-command of Al Qaeda. After adopting the ideology of violent jihad for a period of time, Dr. Hamid recognized the threat of radical Islam and rejected Islamist distortions of the religion. He then pursued a path of reformation within Islam, writing new interpretations of key religous texts and...
Topics: [test613], Islamic Jihad Islamiya Al-Zawahiri Radical Islam Terrorism psychology Jewish Jew Jews...
